NovGauge is a new benchmark designed to diagnose large language models’ ability to assess scientific paper novelty. It contains 619 paper pairs and 50 multi-paper sets, each labeled along three dimensions—task, problem, and method—by experts from ICLR reviewer overlap claims and survey co-citations. The study evaluates 18 LLMs, revealing high hallucination rates and weak evidence grounding, with the best model achieving only 43‑72% verified F1 across dimensions.
By Guoqiang Zhang, Kexin Tan, Ming Zhang, Li Ju, Wenqing Jing, Zhonghan Yue, Jiayi Chen, Shiqiang Wu, Shaofan Liu, Yue Zhang, Yuankai Ying, Yang Shi, Tao Gui, Qi Zhang, Xuanjing Huang
arXiv:2606. 12071v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs are increasingly used to generate and judge scientific ideas.
By Soumitra Sinhahajari, Navonil Majumder, Soujanya Poria
arXiv:2603.20884v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: To alleviate the heavy burden of paper screening, researchers increasingly rely on existing AI agents, such as AI reviewers or DeepResearch, for pa...
By Jiajun Hou, Hexuan Deng, Wenxiang Jiao, Xuebo Liu, Xiaopeng Ke, Derek F. Wong, Min Zhang
arXiv:2510. 27313v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generation novelty is a key indicator of an LLM's ability to generalize, yet measuring it against full pretraining corpora is computationally challenging.
By Philipp Davydov, Ameya Prabhu, Matthias Bethge, Elisa Nguyen, Seong Joon Oh
arXiv:2608. 14669v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems applied to mathematics verify correctness but not novelty: an automatically generated theorem can compile in Lean without errors and yet be an already known result.
By Ayrton Porto
arXiv:2607. 26066v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing volume of scientific submissions has motivated interest in using large language models (LLMs) to assist peer review.
By Ranjitha Shivaprasad Ballakuraya, Arash Mahyari, Ashok Srinivasan